Introducing the latest Education Gadfly, now on Flypaper in a new format:
From Checker's Desk
- Finn on Ravitch (Checker Finn discusses Diane Ravitch's ed policy "turnaround" in her new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System)
News and Analysis
- Teaching as leadership (Jamie O'Leary puts TFA's new book, Teaching As Leadership, into policy context)
Recommended Reading
- Wake me up before you go, go (When Wake County, NC replaces its integration busing system, we learn the limits of parental patience)
- The new politics of education (Central Falls, RI makes Obama's radar screen)
- Marie Antoinette goes to CPAC (How will GOP Governors marry their anti-stimulus rhetoric and tax base reality?)
- Sharing is improving (Ten NOLA charter schools benefit from economies of scale to become more self-reflective)
- Vampire of Nazareth? (Was Jesus a vampire? This guy thinks so)
Flypaper's Finest (The best from Flypaper, Fordham's blog)
- My impromptu education debate with Bill Ayers (Jamie runs into Bill Ayers, and goes toe-to-toe)
- Major disappointment (Andy's first take on the RTTT finalists list)
The Education Gadfly Show Podcast
- Zipping through Thailand (Amber and Rick are back, and what a show it is)
Short Reviews
- Closing the Expectations Gap 2010: Fifth Annual 50-State Progress Report on the Alignment of High School Policies with the Demands of College and Careers (If 31 states already have career- and college-ready standards, then what's all the fuss over the "Common Core" ones?)
- Why Race to the Middle? First-Class State Standards are Better than Third-Class National Standards (At least two states, CA and MA, have better standards than the CCSSI drafts; isn't it better to have good state standards than mediocre national ones?)
- Better Federal Policies Leading to Better Schools (Jack Jenning's CEP swings right on the reauthorization of ESEA)
Announcements
- Developing our relations (Fordham on the hunt for new Development Director)
- Ravitch explains (You won't want to miss this AEI-Fordham event on Ravitch's new book)
- The big screen, free (A free screening of "The Cartel," that expose of the NJ ed system/mafia, in D.C.
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